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(New page: '''Fan-Fare''' was a science fiction and weird fiction fanzine by W. Paul Ganley. The fist issue of ''Fan-Fare'' was published in 1950 in North Tonawanda, New York, U.S.A. ''Fan-Fare'' wa...)

In the April 2007 issue of el, Mike Deckinger writes about Rog Phillips' fanzine column in Amazing Stories, where W. Paul Ganley wrote in to talk of his fanzine troubles in publishing Fan-Fare,

"Editor W. Paul Ganley submitted the first issue of Fan-Fare, along with a letter detailing the myriad difficulties he encountered in producing the magazine. “I had everything except ribbons for the hecto, I had to venture forth and purchase carbon papers, when the carbons finally arrived the gelatin had burst, broken, shattered, or whatever verb is most suitable to describe the rending of the film. Another week went by in which I tried three times to remelt the darned stuff. It didn’t emerge too good from the heat treatment….” This hapless editor is describing the hectograph, a primitive form of reproduction, probably dating back to the Mesozoic era, which many fans struggled and cursed over."